Technical differences between Freeview and Saorview may affect the equipment you need and the channels you can receive. We don’t much talk about the zapper (non-recording) boxes there, but most recording boxes have a cut-down zapper equivalent we can ignore.The Republic of Ireland channels TG4, RTE One and RTE Two are widely available in Northern Ireland via an aerial, satellite and cable. Here’s a link to YouView’s comprehensive list of boxes and their software versions:. Of the Humaxes, T10x0s were the first generation, now obsolete, T2xx0s are the second generation, still going strong, and the BT T4000 is the third generation, with UHD and the most powerful processor. There have been many made by Humax for YouView Retail, BT Retail, BT Subscription and Plusnet Subscription, and by Huawei for TalkTalk Subscription and independent Retail. So not as good as the YouView app but half a loaf is better than no bread. The EPG on the BT app is generic, so it teases me with even Freeview channels that I can’t get, whereas the YouView one was a copy of my exact EPG as seen by my box. YouView dropped their app, which also pulled the plug on the TalkTalk one, whereupon BT stepped in and opened up parts of their app to non-subscribers, at least to allow remote recording requests, see what you have scheduled, and what you have recorded. TalkTalk also had an app, a clone of the YouView one, but that anyone could use, and BT had one also, developed independently, for BT TV subscribers only. From anywhere in the world, not just when you were in range of the box. And see what you had scheduled, and what you had recorded, on that box. YouView used to supply a remote app you could have on your phone or tablet, that would let you send recording requests remotely to a designated (paired) YouView box. If your ISP is BT, and you can’t see the NowTV channels in the EPG, it may be that they are hidden I have BT but not BT TV, and I can see them there. This does not affect your ability to go to those channels by number, nor does it suppress results from them in Searches, but it does stop channels you can’t get from cluttering up the Guide. You can choose, on any box, to selectively hide channels in the EPG. Which you choose affects the flagging up of the NowTV channels on the BT EPG. You can choose, on any box, to have the EPG show just channel numbers, or to show channel logos as well. Though note that the NowTV app on YouView boxes is available to any NowTV subscriber who signs in to it it’s just the EPG channels that are restricted to subscribers via BT TV. In the case of the NowTV Channels shown by BT in their EPG, you have to be subscribing to NowTV via BT TV to get these. Which of the extra channels shown by the ISP on the EPG that you can watch. None of this is dependent in the slightest on what make or model of box is in use. And like Sky or NowTV, there are various packages of channels you can subscribe to, so even subscribers can see channels in the EPG that they can’t watch. ![]() These are the ISP’s subscription channels, but you don’t need to be a subscriber to be able to see them, though you do to be able to watch them. The channels you are shown in the EPG are likewise dependent on the detected ISP, with extra channels shown for BT and for TalkTalk. Other gets what is called the Retail skin. These radical differences in appearance are driven by a single flag, set automatically by the box on detecting your ISP, as BT/PlusNet, TalkTalk, or Other. The ‘skin’ is the presentation of items on the screen, the colours, fonts, font sizes and font weights used, and even whether, say, Settings is a menu item or a little wheel top right. what is a smooth scroll on the T2xxx and T4000 boxes is a jump on the T10x0s. These can’t run the latest apps, or be used with the remote app for mobile devices, and even what they can run has to take their limitations into account, e.g. YouView’s equivalent of NowTV’s white box, the one that is getting progressively left further and further behind, is the Humax DTR-T1000 series, the original black T1000 and the silver T1010. ![]() As apps are release-dependent, the apps available from the box also vary with the release, though generally all boxes get all the available apps in time. This always goes with the box model, no matter which ISP you use it with. ![]() Here are the rules around YouView boxes:.
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